Los Angeles based post-disco/dance-punk duo De Lux have revealed details of their forthcoming fourth studio album ‘Do You Need A Release?’.
Set to be released on Sept 23rd via via Innovative Leisure, Do You Need A Release? Is De Lux at their poppiest, their prettiest, danciest, but also their most abrasive. The record is built on an uncomfortable bed of tension which when released is immediately satisfying in unpredictable and surprising ways. Pre-order your copy here.
Founding members Sean Guerin and Isaac Franco invited their live band to record to tape at Jonny Bell’s Jazzcat Studio in Long Beach, CA. While De Lux has always been able to write immediately danceable and quirky pop songs with a strong dose of wit, these recordings get the sonic boost they deserve to match the quality and camaraderie of their intense and acclaimed live performances.
Sean says that the record is filled with questions and not answers, but each riddle is its own answer as pseudo philosophical as that can sound… His lyrics are at once filled with uncertainty and affirmation. The irony is that the grooves are as solid as they’ve ever been and the band is pushing themselves harder than they ever have. Striving to make something danceable and beautiful and important. De Lux matters because they make music to dance to and be inspired by—they exist to ask us the questions we’re often too afraid to move our bodies to. That may sound hyperbolic but their ambitions are not an exaggeration.
Check out the album's tracklist and re-visit the video for their latest single "New Summers", below.
Do You Need A Release? Tracklisting:
1. They Call This Love
2. Time To Say Goodnight
3. New Summers
4. Validation
5. Morning Misses Me
6. All This Time
7. Some Things Never Break
8. What's Life
9. Act Of Defiance
10. On And On (Till The End Of Us)
11. Belong To You
12. The Final Breath You Take
13. Do You Need A Release?
